In Imponderabilia (1977, reenacted in 2010) two performers, both completely nude, stand in a doorway.

Imponderabilia (1966)

Malinowski emphasized the importance of detailed participant observation and argued that anthropologists must have daily contact with their informants if they are to adequately record the "imponderabilia of everyday life" that are so important to understanding a different culture.

They are so largely the work of those unimpassioned and imperturbable agencies for which Prince de Bismarck had such vast respect - he called them the imponderabilia - that any effort which disregards them, or thrusts them violently aside, will in the long run find them stepping in to abort its fruit.

Even having known them a matter of months, I found that there were suddenly too many imponderables.

The changes in the shopping hours held other imponderables, too.

At the moment, however, our actions are subject to imponderables.

But whether that would really happen depends on other imponderables.

Nevertheless, despite all these imponderables, I do make a decision.

He tried to estimate how much time they might have, but there were too many imponderables.

There are many imponderables, and it's hard to do business without phones.

So far, however, no issue has taken a dominant role, and a number of imponderables remain.

Indeed, the reaction within the military to today's events is one of the major imponderables.

But that technology itself could be delayed, she said, so there are still many imponderables.

The future depends on imponderables which can so easily be changed by a word.

Those are the kinds of imponderables the Tour would like to avoid.

But among the imponderables remains the size of the turnout.

These may seem like imponderables, but we can tease out a few differences.

Whether it translates into practice depends on a number of imponderables.

With all the imponderables, it is little wonder that many consumers have decided to wait.

But he also cited the "many imponderables that you simply cannot predict."

"There are too many imponderables floating around, and they prefer an easy game to a hard one."

Money had proved itself flimsy in the face of those imponderables.

But suddenly here were all three imponderables, thrown together in the same circumstance.

True, this will be an election with many imponderables.

The President has come under heavy criticism for taking the time to ponder the imponderables.

These are all imponderables, and that is how they are typically left.

There are many imponderables in the Chinese stock market.

But he had neither the training nor the inclination to deal with the imponderables of setting policy.